Main Summit Day Two: Wednesday, September 15, 2010

7:15 Registration & Coffee

7:50 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

8.00 Training Partnerships For Shipboard Security And Vessel Defense, Best Practices

  • Raising awareness within the shipping industry- shipmasters, ship-owners, insurance companies, traders
  • Areas of high risk associated with piratical attacks or specific ports and anchorages associated with armed robberies on board ships
  • Working closely with various governments and law enforcement agencies and information sharing

Captain Jeffrey L. Kuhlman
Castle Shipboard Security Program

8:40 Guidance Regarding Somalia And Pirate Ransom Payments

  • Legality of ransom payments
  • Piracy issues in vessel charters
  • UN resolutions, liability issues
  • Unique maritime issues that may effect certain regulations and policies under the executive order
  • Effect on shipowner liability for claims from crewmembers forced to endure prolonged captivity, death, or other injuries as a consequence of a failure to pay ransom

Allen Black
Chairman, Committee on Piracy
Maritime Law Association of the U.S.

9:20 Networking & Refreshment Break

10:00 Building Comprehensive Strategy To End Piracy

  • The Counter-Piracy Mission In The Gulf Of Aden And Somali Basin
  • Ensuring Proper, Continuous, Situational Awareness And Assessment Of Designated Areas Of Interest And Responsibility
  • The Right Type Of Operation That Naval Forces Must Be Capable Of Conducting In Order To Meet The Challenge

Admiral Omar Farah
Chief of Navy, Transitional Federal
Government of Somalia

10:40 Resolving International Piracy Crisis By Strengthening The Somali Federal Government

  • Dangers along Somali shores
  • The legal background
  • Next steps

Abdulrahman Aden Ibrahim Ibbi
1st Deputy Prime Minister
Transitional Federal Government of Somolia

11:20 Collaboration In Space For Global Maritime Awareness (C-SIGMA): A Major Counter-Piracy Capability

  • How natural nexus between space and maritime domains needs to exploited
  • The need for the commercial space to play a major role
  • The importance of international collaboration in both maritime and space
  • Public-private partnership needed

Guy Thomas
Science & Technology Advisor
United States Coast Guard

12:05 Lunch

1:15 International Response To Piracy

  • Coordinated federal response
  • Working with industry
  • Actions by naval forces
  • Harmonizing international action - Coordinating an effective international response to piracy

William P. Astillero
Office of Plans, Policy and Analysis, Bureau of Political - Military Affairs
U.S. Department of State

1:55 Private Security: Steps Shipping Companies Should Take To Secure Their Vessels

  • Up-to-date security measures and practical applications to improve the safety and security of vessels, ports, and facilities
  • Reduction and response and physical security solutions

Captain James Staples
Master Mariner
U.S. Merchant Marine

2:35 Networking & Refreshment Break

3:00 Commercial Maritime Security Team Training And Qualification

Captain Fred J. Evans, USNR (Ret.)
Senior Associate
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Global Maritime and Transportation School

3:40 Increasing The Safety And Security Of Commercial Maritime Vessels

  • Developing and improving security directives for commercial vessels to deter piracy
  • Reducing maritime vulnerabilities: anti-piracy strategy

Kevin J. Doherty
President
Nexus Consulting

4:20 End Of Main Summit

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